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Weltschmerz - Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 (Paperback)
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Weltschmerz - Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 (Paperback)
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Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German
philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism
was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This
theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer, whose
philosophy became very fashionable in the 1860s. Frederick C.
Beiser examines the intense and long controversy that arose from
Schopenhauer's pessimism, which changed the agenda of philosophy in
Germany away from the logic of the sciences and toward an
examination of the value of life. He examines the major defenders
of pessimism (Philipp Mainlander, Eduard von Hartmann and Julius
Bahnsen) and its chief critics, especially Eugen Duhring and the
neo-Kantians. The pessimism dispute of the second half of the
century has been largely ignored in secondary literature and this
book is a first attempt since the 1880s to re-examine it and to
analyze the important philosophical issues raised by it. The
dispute concerned the most fundamental philosophical issue of them
all: whether life is worth living.
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